Austrian or LOT Polish? [in Y on LAX-EVN in May-June 2019]
Jul 28, 2018, 4:18 am
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Austrian or LOT Polish? [in Y on LAX-EVN in May-June 2019]
We are booking an international award ticket with United and our choices are either Austrian Air or LOT Polish Air. Any suggestions? We have flown neither before.
Jul 28, 2018, 7:07 am
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Ah, sorry.
LAX-EVN, probably economy class unless I can get a good mileage redemption for business class on United. Traveling in the late May or early June.
On Austrian, it goes through Vienna. On LOT Polish, it goes through Warsaw.
Thanks for the help!
LAX-EVN, probably economy class unless I can get a good mileage redemption for business class on United. Traveling in the late May or early June.
On Austrian, it goes through Vienna. On LOT Polish, it goes through Warsaw.
Thanks for the help!
Jul 28, 2018, 7:13 am
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If economy class, then I would choose Austrian purely for the comfort of not taking a Dreamliner in economy. LOT has a 3-3-3 seating for an aircraft designed to have 2-3-2. OS catering is good and you can pre-order nice meals. Vienna is an easy airport to connect too and both OS and LO have antisocial timing for the flight to EVN.
If you get Business class, I would mix and match if possible: LOT on overnight outbound and OS on day flight inbound to indulge as much as possible in the fabulous catering.
If you get Business class, I would mix and match if possible: LOT on overnight outbound and OS on day flight inbound to indulge as much as possible in the fabulous catering.
Jul 28, 2018, 11:51 pm
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In Y, OS will have better catering and IFE.
In C, I would still choose OS it departs LAX at about 3 pm - making it pretty much a day flight for the first meal service. You will even have time to catch a train and visit VIE Old Town.
In C, I would still choose OS it departs LAX at about 3 pm - making it pretty much a day flight for the first meal service. You will even have time to catch a train and visit VIE Old Town.
Jul 29, 2018, 4:00 am
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The 777 has a 38 cm higher max cabin width with one additional seat across. Both are designed to carry umpa-lumpas.
Jul 29, 2018, 8:27 am
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Note OS gets bus gates on departure and often on arrival at LAX. I haven’t looked into this personally but the LH F hosts were telling me about it last week and apparently it’s a nightmare... LOT could very well be in the same boat, not sure.
Jul 31, 2018, 4:39 pm
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The Dreamliner was not designed for 2-3-2. And Austrian is using 3-4-3 in an aircraft actually designed for 3-3-3. However economy will suck pretty much everywhere.
Aug 5, 2018, 8:00 pm
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That said...ya, it's a pain. It usually doesn't cost more than 5 mins extra IME, but 5 mins can make all the difference when you're trying to make Fly-Away Shuttle > Metrolink work.
Aug 5, 2018, 10:25 pm
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The differences that I would consider:
in Y: Austrian offers free alcohol in Y, whereas on LOT you have to pay for alcohol.
In PE: I haven't tried Austrian, but found LOT to be VERY comfortable in Premium Economy (compared to Lufthansa). There is a dedicated flight attendant and the meals were a significant improvement over normal economy.
In C: I haven't tried LOT business class, but the seats looked a generation behind Austrian (2x2x2 seating) and reminded me of the old LH business class. Not sat in the LOT seat though, just had a look as passing through back to economy!
All points just my opinion and understanding. Feel free to correct if I am wrong on something.
in Y: Austrian offers free alcohol in Y, whereas on LOT you have to pay for alcohol.
In PE: I haven't tried Austrian, but found LOT to be VERY comfortable in Premium Economy (compared to Lufthansa). There is a dedicated flight attendant and the meals were a significant improvement over normal economy.
In C: I haven't tried LOT business class, but the seats looked a generation behind Austrian (2x2x2 seating) and reminded me of the old LH business class. Not sat in the LOT seat though, just had a look as passing through back to economy!
All points just my opinion and understanding. Feel free to correct if I am wrong on something.